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Dear colleagues,
two weeks ago, I posted the following query:
>While considering expressions like "terribly nice" or "awfully
>kind", I became interested in the question of the universality of this
>kind of emphasis. I know it occurs in German and in Serbocroatian as well -
>but what about other languages? Any example is welcome.
I have received about 40 answers; THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH FOR YOUR HELP!
So far, I have been able to compile the following list of languages (in
alphabetical order) that have similar expressions:
Afrikaans Cairene Arabic
Basque Bulgarian
Catalan Chinese
Corean Dutch
English Farsi
Finnish French
German modern Greek
modern Hebrew Hungarian
Japanese Polish
Portugese Russian
Serbo-Croat Slovak
Spanish Swedish
Turkish Yuroba
It seems that expressions like "terribly nice" are indeed a wide-spread
and possibly even universal phenomenon, and I am sure it occurs in much
more languages than I have been able to gather so far.
If anybody knows a language that should be added to the list, I would be
_awfully kind_ :) of them to let me know!
Thank you very much in advance
Elke Hentschel
jasamzedat.fu-berlin.de
eloufjdbsp.zrz.tu-berlin.de